Permanently delete sensitive text from PDFs — without uploading them anywhere.
Drawing a black rectangle with a markup or annotation tool doesn't actually remove the text underneath — it's still there, selectable, copy-pasteable. Ask Paul Manafort's lawyers, who exposed sealed information this way in 2018. We use a true Redact step that physically deletes the text from the PDF.
Every other "online redaction" tool — including Redactable, Sejda, Smallpdf, and Adobe's cloud features — uploads your sensitive PDFs to a server. That's the opposite of confidential. We run entirely in your browser. Turn off Wi-Fi and watch it still work.
Adobe Acrobat Pro is $23/mo. Foxit PhantomPDF is $129/yr. Redactable charges per document. We're free — no account, no install, no per-page fee. The cost of trust shouldn't be a subscription.
Because your documents never touch our servers, there's nothing for us to leak, subpoena, or lose. Compliance teams reject SaaS vendors over data-residency questions all the time. With us, the question doesn't exist.
| Ours | Adobe Acrobat | Foxit PhantomPDF | Redactable | Online tools | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Files stay on your device | ✓ Verifiable | Cloud features upload | ✓ Desktop only | Uploads | Uploads |
| True content-stream removal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Often visual cover only |
| Free | Unlimited | $23/mo | $129/yr | $10–$30/mo | Often with watermarks |
| No account / no install | ✓ | Adobe ID + app | Software install | Account required | Varies |
| Works offline after load | ✓ | Partial | ✓ | No | No |
That's how you know nothing ever leaves your device.
Adobe's cloud features, Foxit, Redactable, every online "free" redactor — they all let your sensitive PDFs touch a server at some point. We don't. Run the test yourself.